Biblical Archaeology Review

This article is to be published in Civilization and Catastrophe: The Role of Extreme Natural Events in Archaeology, edited by Elizabeth Chesley Baity et al.

Boardman, The Greeks Overseas, pp. 61–70. Pritchard et al., Sarepta: A Preliminary Report on the Iron Age (Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1975), pp. 67–70, 94–96. Leonard Woolley, A Forgotten Kingdom (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1953), pp. 172, 173, plates 19b and 20b.

Boardman, The Greeks Overseas, pp. 178–184, 187–189.

For a discussion of post-Mycenaean pottery and archaeological deposits in Greece, see Vincent Robin d’Arba Desborough, The Greek Dark Ages (London: Ernest Benn, 1972).

Vases made to celebrate the re-inauguration of the Panathenaic Games in Athens in the 560s B.C. provide a fixed date for tracing the development of sixth-century pottery styles. See John Boardman, The Greeks Overseas (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1964), pp. 29–30. For the method of determining absolute dates according to the Common Era (B.C./A.D.) from the data given in ancient Greek texts, see Elias Joseph Bickerman, Chronology of the Ancient World, (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1968), pp. 80–86.

See Frank H. Stubbings, Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951).

Glueck, “Transjordan,” pp. 433–450.

Nelson Glueck, “Transjordan,” in Thomas, Archaeology and Old Testament, pp. 447–448. A. D. Tushingham, “Dibon,” EAEHL, Vol. I, p. 332.

Dibon is mentioned in the inscription a number of times. See William F. Albright’s translation in ANET, pp. 320–321.